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Avengers n.1 #5

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Comments: Pencilers are Barry Kitson, Mark Bagley, Sean Izaakse, and Ro Stein. Inkers: Mark Farner, Scott Hanna, Mike Perkins, Ted Brandt, Sean Izaakse, and Drew Hennessy. Colorists: Jordan Boyd, Matt Yackey, Will Quintana. This five-issue miniseries falls between the original AVENGERS #16 and 17. Issue includes a vintage ad for Marvel Comics t-shirts. The letters page is a new one, covering responses to this series—and the page teases the return of Avenger X is the present.By P on April 1, 2017

Review: Nicely done throwback to the early days of Marvel Comics is an entertaining read though no classic. I'm sure they had a lot of fun doing it. A No-Prize to anyone who can explain why the series needed an army of artists to complete.

Synopsis / Summary / Plot

Cressida—Avenger X—has been
revealed to be a bad guy, draining the life energies of the Avengers,
leaving them aged husks and gaining their powers. The original
Avengers—Iron Man, Thor, Wasp, Giant-Man—arrive to stop her. With
her new powers she is able to hold her foes off and escape....

Two days later, a public funeral is
held for the fallen heroes. A disguised Cressida is spotted watching
from a treetop and suddenly the dead Avengers—Captain America,
Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, and Hawkeye, revived by Hank Pym's
genius—spring out from hiding to trap her, the other Avengers
staying out of the fray and rushing the civilians to safety. Cressida
turns out to still have her powers but they can't figure out who she
has drained power from—until Hawkeye remembers Jarvis in the
Mansion. Quicksilver rushes the butler to the hospital while the
other three split up in the mansion to fight Cressida. They take
turns engaging her in battle so that her power winds down—then
Wanda amplifies Pietro's speed so that he creates a tornado around
her which hurls her far away into the woods. There Cressida
encounters Wizard, Trapster, and Sandman—three of the Frightful
Four—and they push her into the grave they had intended for the
traitorous Medusa. Trapster buries her under a load of glue and
Wizard drops a giant rock on top, inscribing it as her tombstone.
When the Avengers arrive moments later the baddies are gone and they
don't see the newly created tomb so they head back to the Mansion....

The next day they learn that Jarvis is
recovering and they set out on their next mission—to find the
Hulk....